Running a windows partition on a virtual machine in Ubuntu

[chendke]

Hi ,
I am recent convert to Ubuntu . I have a Core Duo laptop with 2 gig Ram with a win xp / vista/Ubuntu[hardy] triple boot .I want to access my windows xp through some virtual machine in Ubuntu and still want to be able to boot in it independently should I feel like . I found an article in
Ubuntu Forums > The Ubuntu Forum Community > Forum Archive > Main Support Categories > Desktop Environments> Making vmware use a pre-existing windows partition?
But it talks about a different subject of making a vm from existing partition and not using the existing partition

https://oopsilon.com/Running-a-Windows-Partition-in-VMware
Above article talks about the stuff I want but for Gentoo. Help from ubuntu pros will be really appreciated. I am new to Linux-world . Please have mercy on my soul :)

Key Answers that I am looking for ,
Which Virtual Machine to Use ?
How to configure the Virtual Machine ?

Thanks
Ani

[shahinam]

Hi,

If you are trying to run Windows XP inside ubuntu. You can try virtualbox, it is very nice software where you can install multiple OS.

You can download virtualbox from http://www.virtualbox.org

[davesollows]

This was most helpful I can't wait to get virtualbox installed and running when I have some free time :)

Hopefully it will allow me to just run an existing winxp install rather then require a new formatted partition and have xp installed within virtual box...

I must do some more reading on this!

Thanks for the idea shahinam

[rfLarke]

Did you find anything else about this? I would love to just run my Windows Partition under a virtual machine but i don't know where to start.

[howefield]

I would love to just run my Windows Partition under a virtual machine.....

There are posts at http://forums.virtualbox.org describing how to do this. Turgid reading but it is all there.

[oantoc]

Did you find anything else about this? I would love to just run my Windows Partition under a virtual machine but i don't know where to start.

Could you make it? I'm reading throw Forum but not finding anything how to run an XP partition. Thank you!